Recently I was lucky enough to be invited by Lisa Ferland to join her PageStarter podcast. It’s a great podcast designed to give writers inspiration. Lisa and I talked about my journey to become a bestselling author, how important ‘connectedness’...
Category: Blog to book
These are blog posts that ended up as chapters in my published olive farming memoir.
Carrot cake everyone wants
Dave’s Carrot Cake This is just one of the recipes that appears in my olive farming memoir, ‘An Olive Grove at the Edge of the World’. ___________________ “Why won’t you share it?” I asked CJ. We were standing in the kitchen,...
Getting intimate with a cast sheep
“There’s a sheep down in your paddock,” our neighbor Jim said over the phone. He’d been working along the fenceline when he saw the sheep. “It looks pretty sick,” he said. I immediately called Hamish. The sheep belong to him....
Old Man Henry and the chook house race wars
Old Man Henry Old Man Henry is our geriatric rooster. He is mangy and decrepit. The feathers on his head are just quill stubble. He’s half blind, bow-legged, and he pauses strangely after every step. On certain misty mornings, when...